Electronic databases
Posted October 3rd, 2008 by Laura Manchester
I've been asked to investigate possible electronic databases for our Bachelor of Design students. We had a trial of the five databases that EBSCO thought would be best for us, but they weren't quite what we were after - good for the business side but not the other areas. We currently have a trial of Art Full Text and I'm getting mixed reports from staff.
I was wondering if any other arts libraries out there had found any useful electronic databases that could be good for us.
The very general subject areas that we teach here are:
design, fashion, interiors, styling, art, architecture, history (of design), management (business management and event management), creative direction, graphic design/CAD, communications and photography.
I was wondering if any other arts libraries out there had found any useful electronic databases that could be good for us.
The very general subject areas that we teach here are:
design, fashion, interiors, styling, art, architecture, history (of design), management (business management and event management), creative direction, graphic design/CAD, communications and photography.
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Design Databases
Some online magazines which you may find useful (and affordable) are:
Australian Creative
www.australiancreative.com.au
DG Design Network
http://www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/
We subscribe to both of these.
There is also a magazine called Curve which is about to go online.Their site is at:
http://www.curve.com.au/
Hope this is of some help
Barbara
Design databases
The best index I know of for Fashion and other design areas is DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index - http://www.csa.com/factsheets/daai-set-c.php
I work with Fashion and many of their journals are indexed in it.
Other than that, I'd suspect that Art Index would also be useful for some design areas - http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/167.jsp
Cheers,
Alice